The Torch is Passed: A New Chapter for Comics for Sinners

Last month, Richard shared some heavy news regarding the future of Comics for Sinners, announcing that the site would be shutting down. It was a tough update to read, both for the readers who have supported us and for those of us who have loved writing for you.

However, I’m thrilled to announce that the doors aren’t closing just yet.

When I reached out and offered to step in to keep the site alive, Richard heartily agreed to pass the torch. Many of you already know my byline, as I’ve been a regular contributor here for several years. Moving forward, I’ll be stepping up to handle more of the day-to-day responsibilities and keeping the content rolling.

Richard built something truly fantastic here, and my goal is simply to keep that momentum going. I also want to make it absolutely clear that this will always be Richard’s home. We are all hoping he’ll stick around and drop a new piece whenever the inspiration strikes or time permits.

We are incredibly grateful for his hard work in establishing this community, and I am honored to help carry it forward into this next chapter.

Stay tuned—there’s much more to come!

About the Author

Jules-Pierre Malartre currently lives on a small island west of Montreal (Quebec), which is as close to the Great White North that he will ever dare go, but still cold enough to save him from big-ass spiders, alien abductions, undead dinosaurs and tourists who find his French accent charming. In 2005, he quit a promising aerospace engineering career to go into freelance writing, which was a very, very bad idea according to his mother. Since then, he has become considerably poorer, but he has grown much happier. Along the way, he adopted cats—lots of cats! When he is not writing technical manuals, newspaper articles, press releases or blogs on anything from comic books to yoga, he is busy working on his first novel, a semi-autobiographical fictional account of his life that dares to ask the question, “where did God go wrong with me anyway?” His first short story, “The Rest Was Easy,” was published by the online literary magazine Amarillo Bay in 2013. The five people who read it liked it. He’s well aware that it took him over a decade to publish another one, so he’d really appreciate it if you'd cut him some slack about it! He loves coffee, cats and reading, mostly because those three things go very well together.